Reserve Team
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Thu 15 Aug 2013
Billinge New Street Football Club
Reserve Team
6
4
Garswood United Reserves FC
Bragging rights go to Billinge

Bragging rights go to Billinge

Media Officer16 Aug 2013 - 11:06
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The Premier League may begin this weekend which is all well and good but I doubt you'll get a game like this all season long.

Ten goals - one from the Billinge goalkeeper - hammering down with rain, tackles flying in, fantastic goals and a great crowd for a reserve match at this level.
Billinge v Garswood games are always going to be feisty affairs and this burst into life in the third minute when Elliot Bradshaw curved the ball into the top corner of the net from a free-kick 22 yards out.
However on six minutes and With the Billinge lads still buoyant and no doubt still celebrating the goal a Garswood player was left in acres of space to head home.
Within four minutes it looked like disaster had struck.
On eight minutes a long ball left Billinge keeper Tom Hull in no-mans land as the Graswood striker chipped home to make it 2-1 to the visitors.
Then on the ten-minute mark Hull could only parry an effort which the United left-back seized on and headed home.
It was not the start that Squash and Fizzer had planned for but credit to all concerned - on the bench and pitch - as nobody panicked and The Storks were back in the game on 16 minutes.
With the midfield of Mark Bowland, Joe Unsworth and Chris Duffy beginning to get a grip of the game you might have thought it would have been a neatly crafted goal that pulled Billinge back into it.
As it was it came from the boot of goalkeeper Hull!
Taking a regular free-kick from just outside the area, he hit it and long and found his opposite number.
Unfortunately his opposite number went to leave the ball to go wide only to find it in the back of the net!
2-3 and it's game-on.
Billinge were now in the game with the aforementioned midfield bossing the game the tide was turning.
There was still danger at the other end though as Hull pulled off two magnificent saves to deny the visitors.
However on 33 minutes it was even as Tom Ashall broke through.
The keeper saved his initial effort but the ball bounced up and he headed home to make it 3-3.
On the stroke of half-time Ashall was flagged offside when through on goal while Hull ended the half by making another excellent game.
It was Billinge who started the second period the brighter and from that moment on - despite one lapse - controlled the game.
They were 4-3 ahead on 48 minutes when Mike Price and Unsworth combined superbly before Unsworth turned and fired home the goal of the game.
It was 5-3 a minute later when Duffy picked out Price who coolly headed home.
That one lapse was to come two minutes later when Rob Bland was adjudged to have fouled a Garswood player inside the area.
The player calmly dispensed the penalty to make it 5-4 but from then on it was all Billinge.
Aggressive midfield play from Duffy and Unsworth meant that Billinge could play the ball around in the wet conditions and camp inside the Garswood half.
However it wasn't until the 70th minute when Billinge made the game safe as Duffy was rewarded for his excellent performance by claiming a goal to give the Storks a two-goal advantage for the second time in the game.
This time they kept that advantage until the end of the game with the ref blowing at 6-4 to the home side.
An excellent result that means the reserves have two wins out of three as they go into Saturday's away game at Gamesley.

MOM Joe Unsworth

Match details

Match date

Thu 15 Aug 2013

Kickoff

18:45

Attendance

61
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